Autonomy Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of the 2011 Magic Quadrant For Enterprise Information Archiving

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy Corporation, an HP Company, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Enterprise Information Archiving Magic Quadrant.(i)

"Autonomy's unique meaning-based approach to archiving continues to drive our leadership in the space," said Mike Sullivan, CEO of Autonomy Protect. "Autonomy's ability to automatically identify the concepts and patterns within the millions of audio, video, social media, and email files that flow inside and outside a company each day enables customers to appropriately archive and govern their content.  By combining these capabilities with Autonomy's highly secure and scalable private cloud, we provide businesses with an unmatched platform from which to drive a range of eDiscovery and information governance capabilities."

To read a complimentary copy of the 2011 Gartner Enterprise Information Management Magic Quadrant, please visit www.autonomy.com/gartner_enterpriseinformationarchivingmq.

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About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation, an HP Company, is a global leader in software that processes human information, or unstructured data, including social media, email, video, audio, text and web pages, etc. Autonomy's technology manages and extracts meaning in real time from all forms of information, both unstructured and structured, enabling companies to leverage their data assets. Autonomy's product portfolio helps power companies through enterprise search analytics, business process management and OEM operations. Autonomy also offers information governance solutions in areas such as eDiscovery, content management and compliance, as well as marketing solutions that help companies grow revenue, such as web content management, online marketing optimization and rich media management.

Autonomy's solutions are used by more than 25,000 customers including 87 of the Fortune 100, 10 of the top 10 financial services firms, 75% of the global 100 law firms, 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and many government agencies. Over 400 of the world's leading technology companies embed Autonomy's technology in their products. Autonomy also owns the largest private cloud of diverse data, with 31 Petabytes of information.

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(i) Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving" by Sheila Childs, Kenneth Chin, Debra Logan, December 6, 2011.

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